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She lied for a year. She promised to protect Brendan Banfield. Then she flipped, took a plea deal, and testified against him in open court. Now she's negotiating with Netflix and media producers are paying her jail expenses.
Juliana Peres Magalhães is the prosecution's star witness — and the defense is trying to destroy her credibility. Former FBI special agent Robin Dreeke joins me to break down what her behavior reveals. How do you evaluate a witness who changed her story after a year? Does financial incentive undermine testimony? And what does her relationship with Banfield tell us about manipulation and control?
Banfield has pleaded not guilty. The trial continues in Fairfax County.
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For eight years, Monique Tepe never said her ex-husband's name. She called him "her ex-husband." Like saying it would summon him. Her family called him a monster. Said she talked about emotional abuse, threatening behavior, that she was "willing to do anything to get out." She was always worried. But nobody thought he'd actually do it. On December 30th, 2025, Monique and her husband Spencer were found shot dead in their Columbus home. Their two children — ages 4 and 1 — were alive in separate rooms. No forced entry. Nothing stolen. Eleven days later, police arrested Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon, at a Chick-fil-A in Illinois. The murder weapon was allegedly found in his Chicago penthouse. 
NIBIN matched shell casings from the scene to a firearm seized from his residence. According to reports, McKee gave police an alibi that didn't hold up. He only went silent after the cuffs went on. At a press conference, Columbus police called this a "targeted domestic violence attack." A reporter asked if neighbors had seen McKee near the Tepe home days before the murders. Police didn't deny it. They're holding cards. The divorce was eight years ago. Seven-month marriage. No kids together. On paper, it looked amicable. But he wanted the rings back. She paid him reimbursement with an interest clause. She didn't know his finances. He controlled the money. Two counts aggravated murder. Prior calculation and design. Death penalty eligible. Court date January 23rd. The family finally exhaled when he was arrested — hours before Spencer and Monique's funeral.
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Brendan Banfield was a trained federal agent. Prosecutors say he used that training to build a months-long murder plot — complete with a fake fetish profile, a groomed patsy, and a staged home invasion. If true, this was a law enforcement officer who believed he could outsmart the system.
Robin Dreeke, former FBI special agent and head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, joins me to analyze Banfield's alleged behavior — from the planning to the 911 call to the evidence left behind. What does this level of alleged premeditation tell us? And where did it start to unravel?
Banfield has pleaded not guilty. The trial continues in Fairfax County.
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Nick Reiner reportedly admits to killing his parents. That alone should end the conversation. But it doesn't — because what he says next reframes the entire case. Instead of focusing on the act, he reportedly describes his incarceration as a "conspiracy." And that single shift raises questions that can't be ignored.
Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke — who ran the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program — breaks down the behavioral patterns emerging from publicly reported information in this case. This isn't about diagnosing mental illness or debating sympathy. It's about how people behave when consequences arrive.
A critical focus is what reportedly happened after the killings. According to reports, there was calm movement, time, decision-making, and navigation — not immediate collapse. Nick reportedly checked into a hotel and moved through LA for 24 hours. Robin explains why analysts pay close attention to this phase, and why serious mental illness does not automatically eliminate awareness, planning, or accountability.
The defense will likely invoke the M'Naghten rule — the same standard that freed David Carmichael, a father who planned his son's murder but was found not criminally responsible because a psychotic delusion changed what he believed he was doing. Carmichael's medication triggered his break. Nick's medication was changed one month before the killings.
But Carmichael had no history of manipulation. Nick Reiner has 30 years of it. Experts repeatedly told the Reiner family he was "lying or manipulating them." More than 18 treatment facilities cashed checks and released him after 30 days.
Robin explains how families don't ignore warning signs — they adapt to them. When instability lasts for years, chaos becomes routine. Intervention fatigue sets in. Boundaries soften. And that adaptation can quietly become dangerous.
This episode doesn't ask for sympathy. It asks harder questions — about behavior, responsibility, and why words that redirect blame deserve scrutiny.
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Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. He's spent his career studying manipulation, deception, and how predators operate. When he looks at the JP Miller case, he sees a textbook pattern of coercive control — and an indictment that only scratches the surface.
According to federal charges, Miller tracked his estranged wife Mica with GPS devices, contacted her more than 50 times in a single day, posted intimate photos of her online without consent, and sabotaged her car — then lied to FBI investigators about it. Mica Miller died on April 27, 2024, just 48 hours after serving him divorce papers.
But the indictment doesn't capture the years that came before.
Sworn affidavits describe isolation, financial manipulation, threats, and constant surveillance. Mica told police JP had "groomed" her since she was ten years old. His first wife Alison filed an affidavit alleging he confessed to affairs, hiring prostitutes, and being "sexually inappropriate" with underage church members. She says she went to police in 2015. They told her no one would believe her.
Two civil lawsuits now accuse Miller of sexually assaulting minors in the late 1990s. Both name his father as a co-defendant and allege their churches enabled abuse for decades.
And then there's Chris Skinner — a quadriplegic Army veteran who drowned in a Myrtle Beach pool on Labor Day 2021. His widow Suzie is now JP Miller's third wife. According to Alison's affidavit, Chris confronted JP about an alleged affair with Suzie just two weeks before he died. JP officiated Chris's funeral.
Miller pleaded not guilty in federal court, then slipped out a back door while seventy people waited. Robin Dreeke analyzes what the behavioral patterns reveal — and what it takes to stop someone like this.
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